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Show Your Stuff!
This month we are featuring a mostly handmade stool built by Andreas Zenker, a computer programmer by trade who caught the woodworking bug just a few short months ago and has already gotten hooked.
CLICK HERE to hear Andreas's story and take a closer look at his stool:
Show Us Your Wood
Carving!
This month we've got Preston Woodruff and his beautiful woodcarved treenware created with Appalachian tradition in mind.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Preston's woodcarvings:
Tips From
Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop
By Jim Randolph
Long Beach, MS In this month's "Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop", Jim Randolph offers some tips on the anatomy of a foam paintbrush and how it can be used for multiple purposes even after you finish painting with it. But first, Jim has a trick for dealing with older 2-part epoxy sets. CLICK HERE to read this month's tips from Sticks-In-The-Mud Woodshop! 
This month, Ric Blamer has a tip on noticing a problem early on in your chain of decisions for executing a project.
CLICK HERE to read Ric's Tip:
HIGHLAND VIDEO:
Product Tours Available on our YouTube Channel! Check out the great product tour videos on our Youtube Channel . Our good friend Morton demonstrates some of our most popular products for your benefit in these tours. Click below to watch one of Morton's recent videos, all about the Festool Domino XL DF700 Joiner:
Are there any products you'd like to see in a product tour? If so, we invite you to EMAIL US and let us know what YOU would like to see!
This Month on
The Highland Blog A Visit to RE-CO BKLYN, New York City's only Sawmill
This past month we got the chance to visit RE-CO BKLYN, New York City's only Sawmill located in Brooklyn, where we got to tour the space and learn more about the benefits and challenges of running a sawmill in the big city.
CLICK HERE to read more about our tour of RE-CO BKLYN on the Highland Blog:
Charles Brock has singled out the specific tools he uses when building his sculptured
chairs and listed them in one place for easy selection by woodworkers
undertaking this challenging project.
Check Out the Tools of the Trade: |
Inside This Issue
Show Your Shop!
For this popular monthly column, we invite you to SEND US PHOTOS of your woodworking shop along with captions and a brief history and description of your woodworking. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store credit if we show your shop in a future issue. 
This month we are featuring the exotic Bangkok, Thailand shop of Neil Yeager.
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at Neil's shop:
By Steven D. Johnson,
Racine, Wisconsin
Wednesday Tools & Friday Tools – The Rikon Combo Belt/Disc Sander
Sheet Sandpaper Organizer & Storage Unit Bittersweet Endings 
This month, Steve reviews the Rikon Model 50-120 Combination 6" Belt, 10" Disc Sander and makes his own project out of the disassembly and reassembly of the tool to improve the noise level. He also completes his mobile sanding unit with a last minute sandpaper sheet sorter/storage unit add-on, and he shows you how to do it!
CLICK HERE to take a closer look at the Rikon Disc Sander with Steve: 
CLICK HERE for a preview of our ALL-NEW Sept. Web TV episode:
By Hand & Eye:
Book Review
By J. Norman Reid
Delaplane, VA This is an important work. The collaboration of one author well-versed in classical design principles and another who is a strong advocate for hand tools and traditional measurement techniques, By Hand & Eye breaks ground that will be new for most woodworkers. CLICK HERE to read the rest of the review:
Making Your Own Marking Gauge
By John Eugster Las Vegas, NV 
I've been using a standard type of Marples gauge for 30+ years and although it functions well there were some things I didn't care for. CLICK HERE to read about John's ideal design for a Marking Gauge and how he made it: |
Spotlight on Mickey Hudspeth, Chip Carver
Mickey Hudspeth teaches the Introduction to Chip Carving class at Highland a few times a year. Since it is an intro class, we weren't sure how much Mickey gets to show off the impressive advanced chip carving work he regularly produces, so we thought we would show it off for him. See more here:
Ask the Staff
Question: Do you have any tension guidelines for the Wood Slicer blades? I already have a blade tension meter.
E-mail us with your woodworking questions. If yours is selected for publication, we'll send you a free Highland Woodworking hat.
My Last Shop: A Workshop Series
By Michael Smith Mountain Park, GA
In the seventh installment of Mike Smith's My Last Shop Series, Mike begins the "nidgey" work, aka the nitty gritty details.
CLICK HERE to get the details:
Finishing Wood
with Alan Noel 
Spray Finishing When it comes to ease of application and total control, spray finishing with either HVLP (high volume, low pressure) or conventional compressed air and suction/gravity feed spray guns is definitely the way to go. Here are NINE helpful tips to consider:
WOOD SLICER
Testimonial
I just received my new "wood slicer" blade that I ordered from HW. I have to tell you how absolutely pleased I am with it. I installed the new Woodslicer blade so that I would be able to do some re-sawing on some reclaimed lumber I purchased. Before I decided to resaw the good stuff, I tested the blade out on some scrap wood. Let me tell you, all I kept saying over and over again, was Wow, Wow, and Wow! I'm serious when I say I was very impressed with how the blade cut. Not only did it cut through the wood like butter, but the resulting wood was incredibly smooth on the cut surfaces and I hadn't ever really had something cut wood so well. I just kept saying wow because I didn't believe a blade could cut so easily and so smoothly.
I needed to share my experience with you and wanted to say the blade FAR exceeded my expectations. It is an excellent blade and I'm very happy I saw it advertised on the Highland Woodworking site and glad I was able to purchase it. Thanks for selling a great product. It makes me that much more confident in any of my future purchases from Highland Woodworking.
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